Meta's Muse AI assistant watches everything, critics call it a parasite on human life
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-09-28
An El País opinion piece by Marta Peirano criticizes Meta's Connect keynote star, Muse AI — a tamagotchi-like personal AI assistant that can answer emails, manage calendars, buy gifts and concert tickets, book trips, fill forms and pay bills, running 24/7 even when your devices are off, in exchange for access to your mail, agenda, conversations, cards and drives.
The core argument: LLMs can't understand the world because they don't inhabit it, so the strategy is to design AI as a kind of parasite that colonizes people who do — via glasses, cameras and wearables that observe and predict real-world behavior. The piece frames Meta's device ecosystem as trading convenience for panoramic surveillance.
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